[Resolved]  Vodafone Prepaid Mobile Service — Illegitimate deduction of Prepaid Balance

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West Bengal

Dear Sir

I, Swagata Dey, from Kolkata owns a Vodafone pre-paid mobile connection with the number 983xxxx220 (Phone number purged to retain the confidentiality) for the past 5 years. Recently, I had a dreadful experience with Vodafone which is compelling me to change my service provider.

On 25-July-2010 (Sunday), Vodafone sent me an sms surprisingly quoting "You have been charged Rs 30 for Caller Tune Activation and Rs 15 for Song selection option". When I called their Customer Care (CC), the executive told me that I have pressed " * & 9 " to copy this song while calling a number. I denied completely revealing the fact that I hate these services very much, but he kept on saying same line. I escalated the call to the senior, but there was more rudeness in handling my call. This did not return my money which was deducted by their faulty system. The guy said if I disconnect, that will hardly matter them. In the end, when I asked them to take complain against their faulty system, they denied to take and cut the call.

From that moment I have decided to discontinue their service. A year back, similar incident happened with my husband who owns an Airtel connection, but the customer care understood the sensitivity of the customer and returned back the money within 24 hours. This proves how much aggressive strategy you adopt; still Airtel is very much connected to its customers.
But Vodafone is miserable and unreliable; they commit mistakes and then blame customers for the same without showing any interest to understand the core problem. As revenge, I am going to do one good thing which I will share few days later once I disconnect them completely.

Thanks for listening, hope this post gives an insight.

Swagata Dey
983xxxx220